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Introduction to Linux - A Hands on Guide

This guide was created as an overview of the Linux Operating System, geared toward new users as an exploration tour and getting started guide, with exercises at the end of each chapter.
For more advanced trainees it can be a desktop reference, and a collection of the base knowledge needed to proceed with system and network administration. This book contains many real life examples derived from the author's experience as a Linux system and network administrator, trainer and consultant. They hope these examples will help you to get a better understanding of the Linux system and that you feel encouraged to try out things on your own.

The present thread is entitled “Puzzles & Jokes (Off-Topic Topic)”. So we publish here the puzzles and the jokes. It isn’t necessary to put here the solutions. So if you can restrain yourself from publishing the solutions – do that. Don’t publish them here.

Try instead to find a nice puzzle or joke and put it in that thread. Look for something puzzling or joyful. Try to keep close to the average level of the thread or elevate it with something really sophisticated. Don’t lower it significantly with something obviously stupid or plainly offensive.

The exception: if according to your research your solution is unique feel free to publish it here. (For example: the 12 marbles or “fake coin” problem described in the post #4 has more than just one obvious solution and some of them are really impressive. So each new solution of that problem would be very interesting and valuable.)

The warning: when I spot here an obviously stupid or plainly offensive post I’ll refer to it in my reply and I’ll give the author of that unwelcome post 24 hours to delete the stupid or offensive content. If he or she defers to delete it or starts some stupid or offensive discussion with me I’ll destroy him or her with my replies. I’m the founder and the maintainer of that thread and I have no mercy for the dumbness. So don’t try to be stupid or offensive. Be smart. If you aren’t sure what I mean follow the posts #12 and #16 below by ponce as well as my replies to these posts: #13, #15, #17, and #19 (you could follow also the echo of that disturbance from the posts #21, #22, #23, and #24). As you’ll see one stupid and offensive post causes an unnecessary and extensive discussion. An explanation: the disturbance with ponce preceded the explicit formulation of the rules and – as a result – the mentioned above 24-hour waiting period didn’t apply to it.

(The rules formulated explicit March 24, 2013.)

The Guide

The post #12 tried to derail that thread and caused a brawl from the posts #13 to #19 and then an argument from the posts #21 to #24.

If you like such an atmosphere you can follow all those posts.

In the other case follow the thread to the post #11, then skip the posts #12 to #24, and continue from the post #25.

The Advertising

Sharpen your mind and your wit like a razor. Follow that thread. Solve the puzzles. Have fun reading the jokes. When you find something really puzzling or joyful publish that here. Be smart.

OK. It seems that some of you like the puzzles. I like them as well. Here’s the puzzle worth mentioning:

Quote:

You have 12 marbles. They all weigh the same, except one. You don’t know if that one is heavier or lighter. You have a balance scale. You can perform up to a maximum of three weighings to find out which marble has the different weight, and if it is heavier or lighter than the others.

Try to solve it unaided. It may take you a dozen of minutes, a dozen of days, or a dozen of lifetimes. Take care: you don’t know whether that unique marble is heavier or lighter so don’t assume that it’s heavier for example. (Or assume that and solve the easy version of the puzzle before you’ll start to solve the hard version.)

When you’ll find the answer look here. There’s more than one solution. The one by J. Wert is really brilliant.

When I write with my right hand I write the way showed in the odd lines.

When I write with my left hand I write the way showed in the even lines.

The “odd” method is odd for me because I was born as left-handed but when I was a child there was a tendency to switch lefties into “righties” so I’m now a mixed type: the things which I learned myself I do with the left hand and the things taught to me I do with the right hand.

It seems to you that the above was funny? It seems to you that the above fitted that thread? You didn’t put even a warning: “OFFENSIVE: TAKE CARE!!!”?

Maybe it seems to you also that you’re smart. You aren’t. Feel free to not put your comments in the threads founded or commented by me. You simply don’t match my level. You don’t match any level.

(By the way: Earth is the part of the Universe.)

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Quote:

Originally Posted by eloi

While you don't think in burning me at stake it's OK.

I don’t. In the first post I said to you: “eloi, eloi, lama sabachthani?”. So you’re God and I’m Christ. Some people crucified the other Christ because he believed in the other God. I don’t like to be crucified so I stated that I don’t believe in you.

Quote:

Originally Posted by eloi

By the way, those that believe in Me know that soon I will found
my own church web site with a paypal button to accept offerings
(e-baptisms 10€).

Don’t forget about e-confession (1€). That’s the true source of the income.

Last edited by w1k0; 03-24-2013 at 01:32 PM.
Reason: cleaning after the integration of the thread

HA, HA, HA, I ignored that (eloi is about the time machine).
Courious. God is angry because of my bad propaganda and is
playing with me! .

We aren’t Eloi. We’re Morlocks. Thanks to us the machinery works.

God can’t be angry at you because He doesn’t exist. He doesn’t play with you either. I play with you and the other users of that forum. Unfortunately some of them can’t grasp the rules of the game. (See: ponce.)

Last edited by w1k0; 03-23-2013 at 09:45 PM.
Reason: cleaning after the integration of the thread